Listening to French/German radio?

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I have decided, after a break of far too many years, that I'd like to brush up on my language skills, mostly French & German. I did them both in a translation MA, so the language is there, but buried deeply

I have hit upon the idea of listening to French/German radio whilst doing my usual jobs around the house, but I can't seem to find any!

I have access to Alexa & also a Smart TV with Amazon Prime, Netflix, Now TV & YouTube. Any suggestions please? I like listening to current chart music but anything would be ok for now just to practise listening.

We listen to German Radio via Spotify. But unless you have a station which mainly speaks like BBC equivalent you don't learn that much.

Podcasts like Spiegel or Audiobooks are a lot better. Similar to setting Netflix to another language.

I'm pleased & amazed to have so many replies, so thank you all & good luck to others with similar goals!

I'm rather excited about doing this small thing for myself & thinking it wouldn't do any harm to investigate options for the DC, too. I'm aware that I won't 'learn' anything much with music radio stations, but for me, the knowledge is already there (somewhere ) so it just needs reigniting, rather than teaching!

Hi, I am from Germany but I live in the UK right now. My favourite radio is NDR2, you can easily download the NDR2 app in the play store and listen to it.

I listen to German radio through our sonos system.
Also, Walter presents on all4 has lots of German speaking TV which I like watching at 3am when the baby is teething. It seems to calm her down.

I listen to FIP online, which is a music station, but have been surprised how much just the intros and the news breaks have reawakened my dormant French.

Hi, I'm listening to 'C dans l'air' podcast on Spotify, looking at France 24 on my phone and reading 'Le Monde' via subscription also on my phone. Also trying to read more novels in French. I go to a conversation class once a week.

I have degree level French and German but I am doing French as I am better at it. Fair play to you doing both!

If you're listening to the Monday programme a friend of mine was on it! :-)

If you have an amazon firestick on your tv you can actually download german tv station apps too and then stream german tv programmes We've got 3sat, zdf, deutsche welle, spiegel tv, br !

Another vote for NDR2 - and SWR3 (feels nostalgic for the old SWF3)